English-Thai Dictionary

gnomic

ADJ ฉลาด และ สุขุม (แต่ บางครั้ง เข้าใจยาก  cha-lad-lae-su-kum

 

gnomic

ADJ เต็มไปด้วย เป็น คำสอน  เป็น คติ  tem-pai-duai-pen-kam-son

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GNOMICAL

a.nomical. Sententious; containing maxims. [Little used. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GNOMIC; GNOMICAL

Gnom "ic, Gnom "ic *al, a. Etym: [Gr. gnomique. See Gnome maxim. ]

 

Defn: Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic. A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry. G. R. Lewes. Gnomic Poets, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections.

 

GNOMICAL

Gnom "ic *al, a. Etym: [See Gnomon. ]

 

Defn: Gnomonical. Boyle.

 

GNOMICALLY

GNOMICALLY Gnom "ic *al *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a gnomic, didactic, or sententious manner.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

gnomic

gno mic |ˈnōmik ˈnoʊmɪk | ▶adjective expressed in or of the nature of short, pithy maxims or aphorisms: that most gnomic form, the aphorism. • enigmatic; ambiguous: I had to have the gnomic response interpreted for me. DERIVATIVES gno mi cal ly |-ik (ə )lē |adverb ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from Greek gnōmikos (perhaps via French gnomique ), from gnōmē ‘thought, judgment, ’ (plural ) gnōmai ‘sayings, maxims, ’ related to gignōskein ‘know. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

gnomic

gnomic |ˈnəʊmɪk | ▶adjective expressed in or of the nature of short, pithy maxims or aphorisms. • difficult to understand because enigmatic or ambiguous: I had to have the gnomic response interpreted for me. DERIVATIVES gnomically adverb ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from Greek gnōmikos (perhaps via French gnomique ), from gnōmē ‘thought, judgement ’, (plural ) gnōmai ‘sayings, maxims ’, related to gignōskein ‘know ’.

 

Spanish Dictionary

gnómico, -ca

gnómico, -ca (también nómico )adjetivo 1 [poema ] Que está compuesto en versos cortos y contiene sentencias didácticas morales .2 adjetivo /nombre masculino y femenino [persona ] Que compone poesía gnómica .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

gnomic

gno mic /nóʊmɪk /形容詞 格言の, 金言の ; 格言 [警句 ]的な ; 格言作者の .